The Business Sector Advocacy Challenge (BUSAC) Fund has, for the third time, won the SME Agency Award at the 2017 edition of the Small and Medium Enterprise Ghana Awards (SMEGA). The award was given in recognition of the BUSAC Fund’s significant interventions that enhanced the advocacy capacity of the Ghanaian Private Sector in the year 2016.

Organizers of the annual SMEGA awards ceremony honoured the BUSAC Fund for playing a prominent and proactive role in improving the business environment through support for private sector business advocacy, promotion and development of SMEs, as well as providing solutions that enhan Read more

The first lady, H. E. Rebecca Akuffo Addo has urged the creative arts centre to use film as a medium for enhancing the image of Ghana on the global stage and promoting national development.

Mrs Akuffo-Addo made the statement while addressing guests at the Black Star International Film (BSIFF) symposium held at the African Regent Hotel in Accra on 22nd January 2018.

At the symposium which was themed, “Film as a tool for changing the narrative for women”, Mrs Akuffo-Addo was officially unveiled as a patron of the Black Star International Film Festival (BSIFF), alongside the Managing Director of CAL Ban

The Business Sector Advocacy Challenge (BUSAC) Fund is a programme set up to strengthen the advocacy capacity of private sector business groups and associations in Ghana. The Fund is accessible through a competitive demand-driven mechanism and is supported by DANIDA (Lead Development Partner), European Union and USAID. The third phase of the BUSAC Fund (BUSAC III) builds upon the experiences gained from previous phases (BUSAC I & II) and is aimed at further improving the business environment in Ghana to facilitate private sector growth.

The Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA), the European Union (EU) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) successfully launched the third phase of the Business Sector Advocacy Challenge (BUSAC) Fund on September 20, 2017.

Present at the meeting were dignitaries including the Danish Ambassador to Ghana, H.E. Tove Degnbol; the EU Ambassador to Ghana, H.E. William Hanna; the USAID Ghana Mission Director, Sharon L. Cromer; the Minister for Labour and Employment Relations, Hon. Ignatius Baffour-Awuah; Chief Director of the Ministry of Business Development, Mr. Joe Tackie and the Vice Chairma

GRANTEE VIDEO DOCUMENTARIES

Over the past 12 months the BUSAC Fund supported a number of private sector business organizations to feature prominently on GTV’s live panel discussion programme, “Business Advocate” to discuss solutions to challenges within the Ghanaian business environment. Watch all 42 episodes of the Business Advocate programme on the BUSAC Fund’s Youtube channel.

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EXTENSION OF DEADLINE - SUBMISSION OF WINDOW 5 APPLICATIONS

The BUSAC Fund Secretariat wishes to inform all stakeholders that the deadline for the submission of applications for grants under window 5 (BDS facility) has been extended to 5:30pm on Wednesday, 18th October, 2017.

Details about this call for applications can be accessed on the BUSAC Fund's website via this link:

USE OF BUSINESS SERVICE PROVIDERS TO PREPARE APPLICATIONS TO THE BUSAC FUND

In preparing applications to the BUSAC Fund Secretariat, the Fund encourages applicants to develop their own proposals.

Candidates who wish to draw on the services of a BSP to develop an advocacy application to be financed by the BUSAC Fund need a prior consent by the Secretariat.

For Window 1 applicants, the BUSAC Fund will finance the use of BSP Read more

RELOCATION OF BUSAC FUND TAMALE LIAISON OFFICE

The BUSAC Fund Secretariat wishes to inform all stakeholders and the general public that the Fund's Tamale Liaison office has relocated to an address opposite the junction of the Central Administration of the University for Development Studies (UDS), Tamale, along the Tamale-Kumasi highway (Within the BasicNeeds Ghana Offices). The current office address is as follows:

The BUSAC Fund Secretariat wishes to inform all grant applicants and the general public that the Fund has completed the evaluation of applications received for advocacy grants under windows 1, 2, 3 and 4. In all, the Fund received approximately 375 concept notes from PSOs spread across all ten regions of Ghana, out of which a total of 80 applications have been approved by the Fund’s Steer Read more

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Brief on BUSAC Fund

The Business Sector Advocacy Challenge (BUSAC) Fund is a Private Sector support mechanism created and funded by DANIDA,
with further support from USAID, DFID (Phase I) and the European Union (Phase II).
The project is aimed at contributing to the creation of a more enabling business environment
for the development and growth of the Ghanaian private sector. Read more

"The TOT was "cefestastic"! It was just what we needed as trainers
and people engaged in the building of capacity for the budding MSME
sector of Ghana. Some people are saying there is a training fatigue
among MSME owners in Ghana, but I bet this perception will change
once we get to work as CEFEstas! Thanks to BUSAC Fund for the
opportunity to be a part of this wonderful family.
" - Gabriel Kofi Ayiglo, Advocacy Trainer
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